About Garden Conservancy
To preserve, share, and celebrate America's gardens and diverse gardening traditions for the education and inspiration of the public.
Focus Areas
Garden preservationPublic garden capacity buildingGarden-based community programmingGarden history and documentationHorticultural education
Who They Fund
public botanic gardenshistoric house & garden sitesmuseums with garden componentsgarden libraries and archivesregional/community garden organizations
Funding Style
general operating support
About Garden Conservancy
The Garden Conservancy Inc. backs preservation work that keeps historic gardens, public gardens, and garden archives in active use. One of its clearest patterns is support for restoration and documentation: Bard College received $71,423 in 2024 for commissioning construction documents for the restoration of Blithewood Gardens, followed by $21,885 in 2025 for restoration of the same site. The foundation also supports gardens as community institutions, as shown by a $45,000 general operating grant to Mckee Botanical Garden Inc in 2025 and repeated support for Oakland Museum of California’s garden-related campaign work across 2023, 2024, and 2025. Its grantmaking reaches both living collections and the records that explain them, including a cultural landscape report for Wethersfield Foundation Inc and operating support for the Cherokee Garden Library of Atlanta History Center. The mix of restoration, operating support, and documentation reflects a funder focused on protecting gardens as places, programs, and historical resources.
What Garden Conservancy Funds
Garden history and conservation appear throughout the grant list. In 2024, Ganna Walska Lotusland received $30,000 for Lotusland’s capital campaign, while Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy received $10,000 in 2023 for restoration of Black Point Historic Gardens. The foundation also funds planning and documentation tied to preservation work: Wethersfield Foundation Inc received $30,000 in 2023 for a cultural landscape report for its formal gardens, and Bard College received $71,423 in 2024 for construction documents for Blithewood Gardens. It also supports public-facing garden institutions through operating and campaign grants. Oakland Museum of California received $20,000 in each of 2023, 2024, and 2025 for the garden-related aspects of the All In campaign of OMCA. Mckee Botanical Garden Inc received $45,000 in 2025 for general operating support, and Brooklyn Queens Land Trust received $10,000 in 2024 for general operating support.
How Garden Conservancy Gives
Typical awards cluster tightly around $10,000: the p25 is $10,000, the median is $10,000, and the p75 is $12,500. A smaller number of larger grants lift the top end, including $45,000 and $71,423 awards. The recent list also shows repeat support across multiple years for several recipients, including Bard College, Oakland Museum of California, and The Architectural League of New York, which points to continued relationships rather than one-off giving. The foundation is a regular funder and makes grants nationally. It also accepts unsolicited applications through Garden Futures Grants, which offers awards from $2,500 to $10,000; the Page Dickey Grant for American Gardens is a $10,000 award within that program.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$53K
Total Assets
$44.9M
Total Revenue
$7.7M
Total Expenses
$5.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $13K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$13K
Geographic Reach
National16 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
TERRENCE D DANIELS
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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